Identifier: tristatemedicalj2189ball (find matches)
Title: Tri-State medical journal
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ball, James Moores, 1863-1929
Subjects: Tri-State Medical Society Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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of the morning dawn and the beautiesof the setting sun; where the mind can grow commensurate with a healthybody ; where one can develop and cultivate the greatest of faculties—that ofthinking, without having the continuity of thought interrupted by the rat-tling of electric cars, the rumbling of omnibuses or the shrieking whistleof steam engines; where one can see in reality what art galleries onty im-itate, and while enraptured with the works of nature and the created, be-come filled with a realization of the existence of a Creator. And then, too,to be reared under the influence of such parents as our hero had! Thelasting impressions of our lives are received beneath the cloudless sky ofchildhood, while our guiding star is the approving twinkle of paternal eye,the chief luminary of our pathway, the vitalizing sunshine of a motherscountenance, and every footstep guided by the subduing influence of amothers love. After obtaining his literary education at Georgetown Ky., he went as a
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* Delivered without manuscript. Ephraim McDowell-Eastman. 493 student of medicine to Dr. Humphries, in Stanton, Va. History tells uslittle of this Dr. Humphries, except that he was educated at the Universityof Edinburgh, but surely he, too, was a man of great intellectual endow-ment. Dr. Samuel Brown, of Kentucky, and Dr. Hosack, of New York,were also his pupils, and arrived at a great distinction as practitioners andteachers of medicine and surgery. In 1793-4 our hero attended lectures atthe University of Edinburgh. Pause for a moment and think of a youngAmerican so ambitious that the entire faculty of this great University couldnot satiate his thirst for knowledge, for going outside he employed Dr,John Bell, a great character, so enraptured in teaching anatomy and surgerythat he filled his pupils to overflowing with professional zeal. In 1795 our hero returned t oAmerica and beganthe practice of medi-cine at Danville, Ky.,where he soon had alarge clientage, oftenriding 50 and 100mil

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